
They tried growing cannabis as a ticket out of poverty. But the elderly couple from Fushë-Thumana not only did not reduce the difficulties, but have just opened a new chapter of problems even more serious than the first ones.
With her husband in prison, a 74-year-old man accused of drug cultivation, Begeja replaced the hashish pits destroyed by the police with seasonal vegetables.
The elderly couple decided to plant drugs, the day when the head of the family Vesel Xhaferri, after several operations, had to face another complicated health intervention, for which he had no income. They had heard that you win with hashish and bet with their lives that they could be among the winners.
"He went to the hospital and had an operation, they didn't do it because his heart couldn't take it anymore. It has been operated three times. The fourth one that had to be done in Italy and they asked for 11 thousand euros. We don't even have 11,000 lek, not 11,000 euros. Where he found the seeds and planted them. He planted it in this garden. He planted 85,000 three-month-old roots and I, for God's sake, didn't help him, sometimes I covered him up rather than he discovered it himself. He told me 'I'm going to plant it'. I said "old man, we will see the fight". The police came and they snatched it from us", says Bege Xhaferri, for TCH.
With her husband in jail and her son wanted, because he didn't report to the police that his father had planted the narcotic plant, the elderly woman relies only on her law, which is faith in God.
The case of the 74-year-old man who is begging to be released from the courts as he has health problems was reported on August 5, 2023.
Awaiting trial, the 74-year-old is held in the prison of Fushë-Kruja, like many other elderly people in prisons, many of whom themselves are accused before the judges even though there is a suspicion that they have taken responsibility as drug growers for save children from arrest.
But with such an incriminating statement, neither the police nor the prosecution can provide evidence to confirm whether the third age is really planting drugs. In the face of the phenomenon of cannabisization, the phenomenon of more than 20 years ago is being repeated, when women admitted that they had planted cannabis and did this to save their husband.
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